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   Kelvin n0mql EN35ld (kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:44:32 JST Kelvin n0mql EN35ld

   #HamRadio idea...

   As you might be aware, some hams use "88" in place of "73".

   I'm going to start adding "16" after "73" in QSOs, in modes where that works.

   1 = A
   6 = F
   16 = Anti Fascist

   Also, elon can eat $#!+ & die.

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     Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: (vees@epistolary.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:44:28 JST Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM:

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     • MikeD N7URH

     @hobbsc @kelvin0mql @zondance It's part of the Phillips Code or 92 Code which was used by Western Union in 1859 decades before 88 could have been significant in any other contemporary meaning

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     hobbsc (hobbsc@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:44:29 JST hobbsc

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     • MikeD N7URH

     @vees @kelvin0mql @zondance that's bizarre. were they meaning to be nazis or is there another interpretation of it i'm unaware of? about the most offensive thing i've heard on the air (at least by licensed hams) has been the gross tradition of "YL" and "XYL".

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     Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: (vees@epistolary.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:44:30 JST Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM:

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     @hobbsc @kelvin0mql We had a few women on my local 2m and 440 repeaters in the 90s and if they were on the nets or in a conversation it was regularly 73 to the men and 88 to the women at the end of the conversations. True in both New Jersey and Maryland area.

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     hobbsc (hobbsc@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:44:31 JST hobbsc

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     @kelvin0mql in my 20+ odd years on the air, i've never seen/heard '88' being used. what watering holes are you monitoring? is captain dave back on the air?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:47:02 JST clacke

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     • Ossi OH8HUB
     • MikeD N7URH

     @hobbsc In Chinese text messages, "88" means goodbye, as it is pronounced bā bā, close enough to Mandarin bài bai or Cantonese baai3 baai3 for "bye bye". I was quite shocked and confused the first time I saw it. 😅

     @oh8hub @vees @zondance @kelvin0mql

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     hobbsc (hobbsc@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:47:03 JST hobbsc

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     @oh8hub @vees @kelvin0mql @zondance you learn something new every day

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     Ossi OH8HUB (oh8hub@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:47:05 JST Ossi OH8HUB

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     • MikeD N7URH

     @hobbsc @vees @kelvin0mql @zondance 88 means Love and Kisses or Hugs and Kisses.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:47:13 JST clacke

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     • hobbsc
     • Ossi OH8HUB
     • MikeD N7URH

     @kelvin0mql Neonazis in Sweden were well-known to be using "88" in their sense already back in the 90s. A popular ice cream almost changed its name due to that.

     @oh8hub @vees @zondance @hobbsc

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     Kelvin n0mql EN35ld (kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 07:47:14 JST Kelvin n0mql EN35ld

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     @oh8hub @hobbsc @vees @zondance
     Yup, I'd heard back in the '90s that 88 was either "love and kisses" or "hugs and kisses".

     But lately, the scuttlebutt is that RWNJs are using it for "HH"... which is sickening.